NEW YORK, New York –New York City Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams, has welcomed the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon past federal marijuana possession convictions.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar, Friday described the T$57.6 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) national budget presented to the Parliament early this week as “a vicious frontal attack on the poor and working class” and called for a general election.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – St. Lucia has begun the process of replacing the London-based Privy Council as its final court.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A new Bail Act that Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte said will strike the right balance between the rights of Jamaicans and national security needs was laid in Parliament on Wednesday.

NEW York, New York – The Barbados government, faced with the financial fallout from the cost of living, debt and climate crises, has unveiled its “Bridgetown Agenda” as a guide for urgent and decisive transformation of the international financial system.

NEW YORK, New York– Grenada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Joseph Andall says the island is seeking to establish diplomatic relations with African countries as well as those in South and Central America.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former finance minister, Karen Nunez-Tesheira, has announced her intention to challenge Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley for the leadership of the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) when the internal elections are held on December 4.

UNITED NATIONS – Stating that, over the decades, Trinidad and Tobago has anchored its multilateral engagement on the founding purposes and principles of the United Nations, Foreign Affairs Minister Amery Browne on Saturday called on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its invasion of Ukraine. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Grenada’s Prime Minister,  Dickon Mitchell, says the region is experiencing a “fascinating time” as a progressive wind of political change is blowing throughout the Caribbean.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the T$57.6 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) budget presented to Parliament late last month, telling legislators it was the best allocation of the available resources.

WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has led 33 of her congressional colleagues in a letter to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus expressing “grave concern” over the administration’s detainment and deportation policies.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – President of the Senate Joseph Lambert has told the nation that a new governance structure will be in place within the next 48 hours.